Category Archives: Health

Adults with depression and who take specific anti-depressants more likely to develop C. difficile

Interesting applied psychoimmunology study. Apparently depressed people’s guts don’t watch direct-to-consumer chemical-imbalance ads. Here is the abstract. Depression, antidepressant medications, and risk of Clostridium difficile infection Mary A M Rogers1*, M Todd Greene1, Vincent B Young1, Sanjay Saint1,2, Kenneth M … Continue reading

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Scourge of depression sees rising number of suicides, report Cang Wei and Song Wenwei in Nanjing.

Staggering base rate… Dark days of despair drive many to the final option Updated: 2013-02-27 09:20 By Cang Wei and Song Wenwei in Nanjing/China Daily Scourge of depression sees rising number of suicides, report Cang Wei and Song Wenwei in … Continue reading

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The nervous system and metabolic dysregulation: emerging evidence converges on ketogenic diet therapy.

Front Neurosci. 2012;6:33. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2012.00033. Epub 2012 Mar 26. The nervous system and metabolic dysregulation: emerging evidence converges on ketogenic diet therapy. Ruskin DN, Masino SA. Source Neuroscience Program, Department of Psychology, Trinity College Hartford, CT, USA. Abstract A link … Continue reading

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Reduced pain and inflammation in juvenile and adult rats fed a ketogenic diet.

PLoS One. 2009 Dec 23;4(12):e8349. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008349. Reduced pain and inflammation in juvenile and adult rats fed a ketogenic diet. Ruskin DN, Kawamura M, Masino SA. Source Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, United States of … Continue reading

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Panic Developments – An Interesting Editorial by Donald F. Klein in the Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria

Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria 2012;34(Supl1):S01-S04 Panic Developments This editorial permits personal conclusions and questions, hoping to stimulate relevant research. Klein, in 1959, serendipitously found that imipramine blocked the apparently spontaneous panic attack in non-depressed inpatients, later considered agoraphobic.Later it was … Continue reading

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Maurice Preter, MD

Maurice Preter, MD is a European and U.S. educated psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychopharmacologist, neurologist, and medical-legal expert in private practice in Manhattan. He is also the principal of Fifth Avenue Concierge Medicine, PLLC, a medical concierge service and health advisory for select individuals and families.